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Lot of political layers to this one. This was not an accident. Town patrol being ordered to shut down human trafficing/blackmarket near base by upper levels and local "business" owners not happy. Toss in election year for local politicians and......Just hope those Security Forces airmen aren't made into some type of scapegoat...

too late for that. the commanding general of that base has essential thrown these guys under the bus and we don't have anywhere near a complete story on this. i said it looks bad and it does...i'd love a translation so we can hear what the koreans are saying about this, but the vid starts in the middle of the incident and its real fuzzy on what led up to this conflict. koreans are proud people and some of them chafe at the US presence while (like you said) the other half wants to profit at any cost.

USAF in South Korea to launch full investigation into civilians’ handcuffinghttp://alert5.com/2012/07/16/usaf-in-south-korea-to-launch-full-investigation-into-civilians-handcuffing/

Five airmen from the 51st Security Forces Squadron at Osan Air Base have been suspended from their regular duties pending the outcome of a full investigation into their handcuffing of South Korean civilians outside their base on Jul. 5.

Three civilians were detained for about 45 minutes which started when three military police officers on town patrol asked a shop owner to move his car from a no-stopping zone.